Category Archives: Humorous

The man in the booth sold postcards and slides. "Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. Besides the three types of irony explained above, there is a special category of irony, the irony of fate. I'm very definitely a fan of his father's work in films and if he has even half the sense of humor... Click on the picture to see more funny kids! And for that, I have become a huge Michael Andretti fan, and I will listen to what he has to say in the upcoming days and weeks ahead.

You'll have to pry it out of his cold, tiny hands." –Jimmy Kimmel "In a new MTV documentary with Macklemore, Obama says that when he was a teen he drank and did drugs, adding, 'I pretty much tried whatever was out there.' When asked what made him stop, Obama said, 'Stop?'" –Jimmy Fallon "Happy 41st wedding anniversary to Bill and Hillary Clinton! In Munich, cabaret performer Weiss Ferdl would bring out large photographs of Hitler, Goering, and other Nazi leaders, and then think out loud, “Now should I hang them, or line them up against the wall?” Several cabaret comedians had a simple routine in which they walked onto the stage with a gag over their mouth, sat on a chair silent for several minutes, then stood up and walked off the stage.

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Remember the time (Aug. 11, 1984) he was joking around before his weekly radio address? To associate humor with Islam might disconcert readers of publications that stereotype Muslims as essentially humorless and incompatible with the West, members of "a different civilization" living in the "land of bloody borders" (Huntington, 258). He wasn’t really rejecting anything; he was accepting of everything, with the force of his charm and his will.

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Anonymous persons who figure in these stories include descendants of ʿAli b. Literary criticism, however, observes the following differences: Humor describes a situation or human figure that is inherently amusing, droll, or funny. This does make one wonder WTF is going on. Could it just be, there are certain voting precincts where criminal activity is the norm and not the exception that would encourage and engage in voter fraud. This is part of "The Simpsons Archive," which is very useful for teaching comedy and humor.

Timothy Hallinan

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While satire can be funny, its aim is not to amuse, but to arouse contempt. This link is to the Humor genre listings, which had 214 free ebooks at the time of this post. Michael, the son-in-law and a parody of the bleeding-heart white liberal, depicts the repairmen as two submissive blacks, eager to please. When his servants brought David to him, Achish said (I Samuel 21:15-16): "Why did you bring him to me? Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our user agreement (effective 1/2/2016) and privacy policy (effective 1/2/2016).

The Onion covers mainstream news and has written some excellent high-tech satire over the years including Microsoft Copyrighting Ones and Zeros. (Enter "Microsoft" into the search field on the home page.) The Onion's full time staff publishes a ton of original content on their web site and also publishes a regular newspaper and books. Jim Carrey declines to send up the toonie, Canada’s hilarious two-dollar coin. Leave a comment “If Wall Street was a pig, lots of people couldn’t stomach it – for religious reasons.” — Yasha Harari 10. #OccupyPennState – During the darkest days in Happy Valley. 9. #OccupyItaly – In the end, debt cost more than burlesque on knee for Berlusconi. 8. #OccupyGreece – Because the 99% think forming a plan to save the economy should always lead to firing the Prime Minister who came up with the plan. 7. #OccupySow – Because Sow rhymes with Dow. 6. #OccupyHog – Because the 99% also want motorcycles. 5. #OccupyBoar – It’s what Asterix and Obelix do best, aside from occupying the Roman occupiers. 4. #OccupySwine – It’s what pig farmers do. 3. #OccupyPorker – Because the top 1% hog over half the pork. “If the 99% decided to Occupy Sleep, would there be any dreams left for the top 1%?” — Yasha Harari 10. #OccupyDreams – If we all occupy dreams together, then we can all sleep our way into the top 1%. 9. #OccupyNightmares – It’s the easiest way for 99% of the people to get rid of the top 1% of nightmares. 8. #OccupyDaydreaming – Because paying attention the other 99% of the time isn’t fun. 7. #OccupySleepwalking – Because the top 1% of sleepwalkers can do things you wouldn’t believe, in their sleep. 6. #OccupyVisions – Because the top 1% of psychotropic users control over half the visions. 5. #OccupyLightSleep – Because being alert and staying sharp is the way the top 1% achieve their dreams. 4. #OccupyHeavySleep – It’s very tiring to protest day and night for months on end, so you won’t notice the noisy city sounds. 3. #OccupyNap – Sometimes half asleep is better than your other options. … and the #1 Occupy Sleep joke is: 1. #OccupySleep – Because the other 99% deserve more sleep.

Ann Charles

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A Cultural History of Humour: From Antiquity to the Present Day, edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg (Cambridge, U. Judah, in an attempt to get sympathy, told the Grand Vizier (in actuality Joseph) that they had an old father, and that Benjamin, the youngest child, was the only one of his mother�s children who was alive, since he had had a brother who died. Behavioral scientists acknowledge the validity of the most fundamental principle in biology, evolution, but completely ignore it in humor theory and research.

John Stanley

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If you can read between the lines, you'll start... Each contestant, armed only with a drum which he uses as an accompaniment, recites humorous insults and obscene jokes ridiculing his opponent. You can give the print version as a gift and keep the Kindle version for yourself. The irony comes in when Chaucer adds that she is a gap-toothed woman (a traditional sign of a lecherous nature)in scarlett red leggings, who has been married five times and, "of remedies of love she knew parchance" (Chaucer 92). ...

Richard Best

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Indeed, the major commentaries on the Bible argue as to whether the "my son" referred to in Jacob�s blessing is Judah or Joseph (see Rashi and Rashbam). Often, lofty diction and complicated sentence construction can alienate young readers. Robert Mankoff is a cartoonist, cartoon editor for The New Yorker and founder of The Cartoon Bank. Samuel Craig (1973), "Humor in Advertising," Journal of Marketing, 37 (October), 12-18. My dad went to the wake, where this exchange occurred: My dad came home just energized from this.

As suggested earlier, the idea that humor and laughter are rooted in one's own perceived superiority probably accounts, at least in part, for why laughter has so commonly been condemned as irreligious. In Munich, cabaret performer Weiss Ferdl would bring out large photographs of Hitler, Goering, and other Nazi leaders, and then think out loud, “Now should I hang them, or line them up against the wall?” Several cabaret comedians had a simple routine in which they walked onto the stage with a gag over their mouth, sat on a chair silent for several minutes, then stood up and walked off the stage.